November 18, 2015

When we watch our favorite movies, we rarely think about the huge amount of professionals who create all the iconic superheroes, wizards and other on-screen characters. There’s a different side to the life of these fantasy worlds created on screen that we never see.

Here's a collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos of famous classic movies you may not have seen before...

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Topaz (1969).

Sophia Loren in The Pride and the Passion (1957).

Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang); photo by Horst von Harbou. Filmed using the Schüfftan Process, a precursor of the bluescreen. The technique used mirrors to create the illusion of live actors in huge sets (which in actuality were miniatures of scenery composed of painted or modeled backgrounds).

Sophia Loren and Clark Gable in It Started In Naples (1960).

Federico Fellini auditioning in Paris for Casanova, 1975.

Notable moments in pre-Code Hollywood: The Sign of the Cross (1932), in which Cecil B. DeMille re-created in sadistic detail the excesses of the “Arena Games” in Nero’s Rome.

The leopard whom Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) and David Huxley (Cary Grant) chase all through Bringing Up Baby was an eight-year-old female named Nissa.